In the commercials it looks like Ray Liotta got lost and wandered onto the wrong set.

Burt.Reynolds.as.a.king.

erm, and its an Uwe Boll production, so yeah its a guaranteed worst proffesiosonal movie of 08 ;p oh and its also a game adaption movie just to make the prediction more certain!

Oh, I don't know, the year has just begun. Plenty of time to make a worse movie. Never underestimate how badly something can suck.

I just saw the trailer today. I laughed. Hard. I thought the bottom of shameless LOTR ripoffs had been reached with Eragon, but boy oh boy was I wrong.

I have played the game. The game is a joke. Lead your party of adventurers past endless series of monsters. Kill them. Move on. Get better equipment and skills, that don't matter cause the enemies get stronger as you get further, which means you're spending as much time beating up a dragon at the end of the game as you are beating up a rabid dog in the beginning. Sure, your swords get flashier. Whooptidoo.

Looks like the movie will go along the same path. Never heard such a generic pitch for a fantasy movie as this one. Where are the good old days when this kind of nonsense went straight to video and you could pick it up at discount bookstores for a couple of bucks?

EDIT: also, whoever designed that poster should be shot. That's the kind of crappy design we did for the covers of our own videocam short films back when we were sixteen.

mmmmm delicious craptacularness

I honestly thought that poster was a photo-shopped, fan-made effort. Never a good sign, and with opinions like that I don't think I'll be watching any time soon.

The odd thing is while the cast is nothing to write home about, they're not idiots. How did they get roped into this one?

Money

Gotta pay the bills, I guess. Still, a craptacular movie like this can hurt a career.

Well Reynolds and Liotta have both had their share of shit movies. Statham is pretty stiff in everything he does, more of a stuntman than an actor. Sobieski, if you remember those poems she wrote and read on tv after 9/11 is far from being invited to any braintrust. Rhys-Davies will seemingly do anything if the check clears, even passed on Indy IV for this.

It's all as disappointing as politics.

First reaction to this movie during a commercial? Laughter.

Second? More laughter.

It kind of went on from there. I could kind of understand some games made into movies...something with...you know...a definite plot and characters. And something more than HACK! SLASH!

Ah, movie industry. How you continue to shock and amaze me with your bouts of stupidity.

That's one thing that continues to confuse me about Uwe Boll's films, how he continually gets these big names to be in his movies. Yes you have to pay bills but do they not see whose directing/producing this and go "wooooo... no thanks. I'll just do a Gieco commercial or something"

so i stand by my opinion of ewe suck balls ..er i mean uwe boll
how the hell does anyone still give him money to make a film ...who are these idiots and how can i get in on this action

2nd
a film student type person i know claims that ewe contracts far in advance for a "film" with an actor or rather several actors when the time comes he just picks who is available to work.
and they generally dont know what they are getting in to or care it seems.
getting paid to work in a bad film is still getting paid to say your lines and the knowledge that it doesnt matter one way or the other how you say your lines because its gonna suck so you do your time and walk away with your phat loots.

I still say I'd rather do a shitty commercial for the money.

The way he makes these movies is he writes, directs, and produces a lot of them... In other words he prolly spends his own money on this shyt. The studio makes a ton of money on him too as when he does all three it means that they can cut the money spent.

He either has a long term contract, spends his own money, or has a working relationship with a studio that is profitable for both of them.

I'm still lost between the connection to the game and movie. I wasn't a huge fan of the game, but it was entertaining. But... um.... it looks like the biggest common thread is that they both have swords. That's about it. I highly doubt that there will even be any dungeon crawls, that is to say, the reason the game was called Dungeon Seige.

...there better be a mana-rich pack mule at least.

LOL

Let's be honest though. None of the actors in this movie have "great" careers. Even Statham isn't doing THAT well.

Great? No, not by any means. But, they are idiots. They can see a bad script and/or director.

The sheer fact that Jason Statham's character is called "Farmer" is reason enough to think that this movie will be a pile of shit.

Honestly, how does Uwe Boll get away with this nonsense?

That poster is horrendous, by the way, I keep expecting Burt Reynolds to send out a big beaming smile just to make it cheesier.

Know what I can't help thinking, though? If Uwe Boll ever attempted a comedic movie, it's be absolutely friggin' hilarious and possibly hailed the greatest comedy movie of all time.

He sure as hell can't write/produce dramatic fiction to save his life...

Didn't he do Postal and wasn't that supposed to be a comedy?

Yep.. and it still sucked...

Uwe Boll is something you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy.

Good news for all you Boll haters. After the bad results on the opening weekend of "In the name of the King" he has announced he'll stop making huge action movies.

Yah but he's still making movies...

Isn't there another Uwe Boll movie coming out soon? /dies

Yes.. and he's lieing about not doing big movies anymore.

He's got 2 sequals to BloodRayne, Tunnel Rats (Remember that game on Sega CD? it's not that) Far Cry, Aline in the Dark II (like 1 wasn't bad enough), Legend,. Hand of God, and Sabotage 1943 (wasn't that an airplane game?) That's just as director and producer, he plans on writing the BloodRayne III sequal and Tunnel Rats, and Zombie Massacre.

lol maybe the BLoodrayne franchise will be another Darkman, 5-7 really bad movies lol How he even made a profit of 1 & 2 makes my mind boggle.

Just looking at that poster, even Burt Reynolds seems surprised he's in that movie...